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inert

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inert
Chem having only a limited ability to react chemically; unreactive
inert [i′nərt]
(science and technology)
Lacking an activity, reactivity, or effect.
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After some time they began to think themselves ill-treated in the appointment of so inert a Ruler, and sent a second deputation to Jupiter to pray that he would set over them another sovereign.
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These they were filling with water and placing over a number of fires near the stake where the dying victim now hung, an inert and bloody mass of suffering.
Tarzan of the Apes by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
This it is, that for ever keeps God's true princes of the Empire from the world's hustings; and leaves the highest honors that this air can give, to those men who become famous more through their infinite inferiority to the choice hidden handful of the Divine Inert, than through their undoubted superiority over the dead level of the mass.
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